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  "source": "Wikimedia REST Pageviews API",
  "source_url": "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/",
  "license": "CC0-1.0 (Wikimedia pageview data)",
  "period": "201507–202607",
  "access": "all-access, user agents only (bots excluded by the API)",
  "method": "Raw annual pageview sums per article. Partial first and last years are dropped so growth is not an artefact of them. A first-to-last percentage change is reported but is window-sensitive: peak_year and pct_of_peak_now are the more honest summary and both are included.",
  "limitation": "Pageviews measure interest, not events. Someone reading the Divorce article is not necessarily divorcing.",
  "generated_by": "scripts/research/collect-pageviews.py",
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        "2021": 494303,
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        "2023": 1107366,
        "2024": 1505374,
        "2025": 910539
      },
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      "change_first_to_last_pct": 158.9,
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      "pct_of_peak_now": 69.8,
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        "2020": 99020,
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        "2024": 30732,
        "2025": 24989
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        "2024": 7818,
        "2025": 30206
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      "pct_of_peak_now": 100.0,
      "total_views": 45368
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      "yearly_views": {
        "2016": 76314,
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